3: Final CurtainL

The glamour of the music halls begins to fade for Richard.

Nick Ollanton: Tom Baker

Old Richard: Bryan Pringle

Young Richard: Richard Hollick

Tommy Beamish: Steven Frost

Julie Blane: Bridgit Forsyth

Inspector Furness/Johnson: Russell Dixon

Cissie Mapes: Deborah McAndrew

Nancy: Kathryn Hunt

Jennings: John Lloyd Allingham

Barney: Mike Edmunds

Sam: Freddie Davies

Sun 2nd Oct 1994, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Written in the mood of Angel Pavement, this imaginative novel is set in the years immediately before the First World War. In turns funny, sad, nostalgic, it is the story of young Richard Herncastle who travels the now vanished Music Halls (the 'Lost Empires') with his uncle, an illusionist. The core of the story is the young man's emotional awakening.

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